There was a time when a scoreless hockey game over 60 minutes was more than just a rarity. It was news. It was a headline. These days, well, any number of games in a given week threaten to go three-on-three overtime deadlocked at 0-0. It’s sure not news when it happens, a commentary on the gridlock of today’s NHL that we can only hope league general managers will choose to seriously address at their March meetings this year. When the goal-less game occurs, you can still admire the grit and intensity and effort involved, and you can still enjoy the competition, but you don’t get much of a measure of the skill of either side, the ability to convert chances into actual goals. On Thursday night at the Air Canada Centre, the Carolina Hurricanes and Toronto Maple Leafs engaged in one of those games. Sixty minutes produced no goals despite a combined 64 shots on goal, 37 by the visitors from Raleigh. Two goalies, Eddie Lack and James Reimer, produced shutout performances over three periods, and neither had to be superb to do it. - See more at: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/hurricanes-face-difficult-decision-to-trade-or-keep-eric-staal/
